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Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc

Detroit regional chamber foundation, inc.

$697k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Community Improvement$525kArts & Culture$405kYouth Development$312kHuman Services$270kFood & Nutrition$150kEducation$132kRecreation & Sports$120kHousing & Shelter$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $250,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $697,148 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $447,148 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVE COAL$30,000
SERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL$30,000
GIVING AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION INC$30,000
BLACK TECH SATURDAYS$25,000
DETROIT BALLOON STORE$15,000
MAHK-ERE LLC DBA MOCKERY ZERO PROOF$15,000
HAPPY BOUNCE LLC$15,000
THE COLORING MUSEUM LLC$15,000
ABC MOBILE VISION INC$15,000
NEXT CHAPTER BOOKS LLC$15,000
GUERILLA FOOD LLC DBA PINK FLAMINGO TO GO$15,000
BEAVERLAND FARMS LLC$15,000
JUST FOR KIDS II CHILD CARE LLC$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $237k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $30k → 21%DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $27k → 21%DREAM OF DETROIT: $30k → 21%DETROIT PARENT NETWORK: $30k → 21%SERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL: $30k → 21%BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $30k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE: $30k → 21%DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH: $30k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

7%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$177k · 4 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +572% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
88

Total granted

$177k
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+572%
0%

Still filing today

50%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • 360 DETROIT INC
    2× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +71%
  • DP
    DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER
    2× · 2019–2024 · $57k · revenue +572%
  • HB
    HAPPY BOUNCE LLC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k

Funded once

  • CP
    CLARK PARK COALITION
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -21%
  • KA
    KNOW ALLEGIANCE NATION
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · 32% of their budget
  • BP
    Bailey Park Project
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
About Face Detroit
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2
Summer in the City

Summer in the City strives to improve and expand community service in Metro Detroit. By bringing a diverse group of young people together to invest their energy in Detroit, Summer in the City programs address the immediate needs of city…

Philanthropy
3
New Hope Community Development

A neighborhood based housing and development Corporation with the purpose of revializing the detroit area, by providubg affordable housing to persons of low and moderate incomes and providing youth development and networking.

Housing & Shelter
4
Detroit Cultivator Community Land Trust

The maintenance and beautification of vacant land inside of a community

Food & Nutrition
5
Mack Alive

The nbsp;mission nbsp;of nbsp;mack nbsp;alive nbsp;is nbsp;to nbsp;enhance nbsp;the nbsp;growth nbsp;and nbsp;development nbsp;on nbsp;the nbsp;eastside nbsp;of nbsp;detroit

Health
6
Cinema Detroit

Motion picture exhibition

Arts & Culture
7
Workin Rootz

Our mission is to revitalize and re-engage the community by reconnecting to the Earth through land stewardship, food sovereignty, sustainability, and herbalism.

Environment
8
Detroit Donates Inc
Housing & Shelter
9
Cadillac Urban Gardens

To create equitable access to culturally relevant foods by fostering multigenertional knowledge and leadership

Food & Nutrition
10
Detroit African Youth Development Organization

Enhance the living standard for African migrant communities in the USA, and empower segments of poor populations in Africa through education sustainable economic and social development programs and projects and creation of opportunities…

Youth Development
11
Progressionista

Progressionista serves Detroit girls ages 8-12 with literacy and mentorship programming and provides annually 250 books in total for participants to keep, in-person masterclasses with women professionals, hands-on career projects, and…

Youth Development
12
Detroit Is Different Community Group

Detroit is different community group is committed to educating and empowering legacy detroiters by providing access to platforms and storytelling methods often excluded from mainstream media. through culturally centered programming, the…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Remodeled; the most unlike its peers is Detroit Puppet Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/50
Grantees still filing
22/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

+64 more: $1,243,000 · Other+64 more360 DETROIT INC: $60,000 · Community Improvement360 DETROIT INCEDEN GARDENS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementEDEN GARDENS COMM…Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $30,000 · Community ImprovementWayne-Metropolita…CONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCONGRESS OF COMMU…WOMEN OF BANGLATOWN: $30,000 · Community ImprovementWOMEN OF BANGLATO…DETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT HISPANIC …MEXICANTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30,000 · Community ImprovementMEXICANTOWN COMMU…Northend Christian Community Development Corporation: $30,000 · Community ImprovementNorthend Christia…Motor City Grounds Crew: $30,000 · Community ImprovementMotor City Ground…1 Michigan for the Global Majority: $30,000 · Community Improvement1 Michigan for th…THE TUXEDO PROJECT: $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE TUXEDO PROJEC…Osborn Neighborhood Alliance: $14,500 · Community ImprovementKNOW ALLEGIANCE NATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKNOW ALLEGI…DETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SOU…MOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMOTOWN HIST…DETROIT THEATER ORGAN SOCIETY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT THE…WE ARE THE CULTURE CREATORS NONPROFIT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWE ARE THE …Live Coal: $30,000 · Arts & CultureLive CoalDETROIT PUPPET COMPANY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT PUP…ATLANTIC IMPACT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTIC IM…DETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $56,500 · Human ServicesDETROIT PHO…SERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL: $30,000 · Human ServicesSERVICES TO…DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Human ServicesDETROIT POL…BRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGING CO…Detroit Parent Network: $30,000 · Human ServicesDetroit Par…DETERMINED EXCEPTIONAL FEARLESS YOUTH: $30,000 · Human ServicesDETERMINED …Dream of Detroit: $30,000 · Human ServicesDream of De…CODE313: $30,000 · EducationTEACHERS SUPPORTING TEACHERS EVERYWHERE INC: $30,000 · Education20 Book Incorporated: $27,000 · EducationJourni Incorporated: $25,500 · EducationBLACK TECH SATURDAYS ALEXA TURNAGE: $25,000 · EducationDETROIT HORSE POWER: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentDETROIT UNITED LACROSSE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentAvalon Village Inc: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRILLIANT DETROIT: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLARK PARK COALITION: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsBailey Park Project: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK: $30,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,243,000Community Improvement$369,500Arts & Culture$240,000Human Services$236,500Education$137,500Youth Development$120,000Recreation & Sports$90,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget360 DETROIT INC: $60,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDETROIT PHOENIX CENTER: $56,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCLARK PARK COALITION: $30,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetKNOW ALLEGIANCE NATION: $30,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetBailey Park Project: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES TO ENHANCE POTENTIAL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCODE313: $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCONGRESS OF COMMUNITIES: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN OF BANGLATOWN: $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetDETROIT HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEACHERS SUPPORTING TEACHERS EVERYWHERE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetDETROIT HORSE POWER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMEXICANTOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetDETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLIFE REMODELED: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRIDGING COMMUNITIES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDETROIT SOUND CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE YUNION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDETROIT THEATER ORGAN SOCIETY: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetDETROIT UNITED LACROSSE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetPEOPLE FOR PALMER PARK: $30,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetAvalon Village Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFamily Assistance for Renaissance Men: $30,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetCHANDLER PARK CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetRENAISSANCE OF HOPE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDetroit Parent Network: $30,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetLive Coal: $30,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNorthend Christian Community Development Corporation: $30,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBLACK LEGACY ADVANCEMENT COALITION: $30,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGRACE GUILD OF SINAI GRACE HOSPITAL AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetBRILLIANT DETROIT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDETROIT PUPPET COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetAUSOME LEARNING CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetDETROIT HIVES INC: $30,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetDream of Detroit: $30,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget1 Michigan for the Global Majority: $30,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetATLANTIC IMPACT: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMETRO SOLUTIONS INC: $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget20 Book Incorporated: $27,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetJourni Incorporated: $25,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Skillman Foundati…Community Foundation …United Way for Southe…The Kresge FoundationWayne State Universit…DTE Energy FoundationWayne-Metropolitan Co…Detroit Economic Grow…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Ford PhilanthropyMcGregor FundHudson-Webber Foundat…
The Skillman FoundationMI61.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Skillman Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · The Kresge Foundation · Wayne State University Research and Technology Park in the City of Detroit · DTE Energy Foundation · Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency Inc · Detroit Economic Growth Association · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · McGregor Fund · Hudson-Webber Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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